Compile a list of overused tech sector words and seamless is near the top. With technology measured by its ability to make tasks effortless - a UI that ‘removes the seams’ for the user is critical.
Want to listen to a song? Ask Alexa. Summarize string theory? Type a prompt. Buy a drink? Wave your phone. And so on.
This is what our new scheduler sets out to do for team exercising.
Typically, setting up a range requires time and work a defensive team admin doesn't have. The result? Exercising doesn't happen. This means soft skills remain dormant, technical skills untested and processes a liability. The other option - falling back onto unrealistic attack simulations - can be just as much of a time sink.
This got us thinking. How do we make creating and scheduling a team exercise in a high-context range more like provisioning a cloud application?
Our updated scheduler is the result.
A new UI makes short work of selecting scenarios, choosing exercise types, customizing the range and scheduling time with your team members:
1. Select an attack: A redesigned picker filters the exercise catalogue by threat type, difficulty and attacker TTP - making it easy to select a more relevant attack narrative.
2. Schedule range time: Pick dates, times and teams before inviting participants. Exercises with a Rangemaster need 5 days notice - those without - just 24 hours. Or if you haven’t aligned internally yet, just leave a placeholder.
3. Select from 3 exercise types: Exercise your triage by provisioning an EDR, leave it out to test threat hunting, or select Red vs Blue and invite the offensive team.
4. Customize tools: Configure your range’s defensive toolset by picking from a list of leading SIEM, firewall and EDR vendors.
5. Act on clear skills gap data: Access readiness scores, MITRE D3FEND maps and exercise performance data so you can assign targeted solo skills labs.
The new UI is part of our promise to make cyber ranges for the mass market - a broader strategy that removes not just seams, but also barriers to team readiness.
To try a free team exercise for yourself, go here.
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